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Food
for Thought
Festival
Farm Fresh
Atlas
Wisconsin
Homegrown Lunch
Buy Fresh Buy Local
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REAP is committed to projects that
shorten the distance from the farm to the table, supports sustainable agricultural practices and address the
food security of all members in our community.
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The
Annual Food for Thought Festival
Held
on a Saturday morning each September in Madison, Wisconsin, the festival
addresses what it means to live in a “healthy food system.”
Festival activities include speakers, cooking demos, informational
exhibits, live music, children's activities, great food and
more.
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Southern
Wisconsin Farm
Fresh Atlas ™
This
atlas lists farms and food-related businesses that sell their goods directly
to customers in southern Wisconsin.
The atlas features farms and food businesses that are:
- Family or cooperatively owned
- Committed to reducing the application
of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers
- Protecting the region's land and water
- Treating their animals with care and respect
- Providing safe conditions for their employees
- Selling products grown on the farm or produced
by the business
It's
your link to great-tasting food grown close to home!
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Wisconsin
Homegrown Lunch
The
goal of the Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch Project is to enhance Wisconsin's public schools' meal
programs by introducing fresh, nutritious, local and
sustainably grown food to students.
The program, like similar "farm-to-school" programs around the country, provides an opportunity for children to reconnect with their natural world and helps establish a stable market for local farmers and processors.
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Buy
Fresh, Buy Local Campaign
This campaign is aimed to increase the capacity of restaurants and
institutional food services in Southern Wisconsin to serve and promote
more quality, local food and to help consumers identify places to
purchase a variety of locally grown food products.
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What's
else is REAP involved in?
In addition to our major initiatives, REAP remains engaged in activities
at many levels within our food system. Research, Education,
Action, and Policy. It's our name.
REAP is working with our friends in
like-minded organizations to:
- Explore
possibilities for a small-scale vegetable processing facility,
- Participate
in the effort to develop a four season Public Market committed to
selling local farm products.
- Foster
collaborations between the already effective organizations working
to build a strong regional food system,
- Act
as an advisor on the State of WI Dept. of Agriculture's Buy Local
Buy Wisconsin Advisory Committee, and
- Continue
food policy conversations with city, county, and state decision-makers
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